I like unboxing videos when I am shopping/researching the item in the video. Though they will never be art like a landscape photo, unboxing videos can be cool and worth the price of admission. I did watch an unboxing of some large "hundreds and hundreds of mm" Canon white lens just so I could check out the design of the suitcase it came with.

If you said landscape photography was the most annoying fad in photography, I would agree with you. I don't like landscape pictures. They bore me to death and look like any other landscape picture on the internet.

Don't monkeys prefer selfies? I would like to see your categorical statement submitted to experimental testing. We can grade their ability from handling primes to zooms to reversing rings, bellows and ring flash maybe.

...move unboxing videos to #1. In my opinion this really shows that it's not about the photo, it's about the look of the gear that matters most to these guys. AT least selfies and food photos are people actually taking photos.

...move unboxing videos to #1. In my opinion this really shows that it's not about the photo, it's about the look of the gear that matters most to these guys. AT least selfies and food photos are people actually taking photos.

If it's the selfies we see all over the internet, it's not even about the photos, it's about craving attention in social media. I respect people liking technology and wanting to share the experience with others who might want to learn something, like what comes in the package. I can't respect people who are so starved for attention that they take their own portraits because nobody else will.

When I got my first job as an advertising photographer's assistant, we did loads of food photography. Also I noticed a picture at David Bailey's brilliant exhibition at the NPG in London, a selfie he took of him and Dali holing his 35mm film camera at arms length.

2: Unboxing vids. "OK guys, so here I am with my new D800 and I'm opening the box. Here are the cables, here's the battery, here's the owners manual." Yeah, what a waste of my time. Do people HONESTLY watch those, and for what reason? Do you REALLY need to see what it looks like to take a camera or lens out of the box?

3: Selfies for the reason mentioned above. Not all selfies bug me, but the girls who post 15 a day on social media while puckering up their lips, pushing out their boobs and butt, THEN adding the instagram filters/effect, are a sad, pathetic, joke.

4: Food photos. Whatever. Just like unboxing vids, I couldn't care less what someone has for lunch and I move along.

How are these 'new'? Food photography has been around for very many years just open a 1960's recipe book, self portraits likewise been a 'fad' since the 1830's

I will agree about no 3 although I wouldn't say they were a photographic fad, more a consumer electronics one as I've seen unboxing videos of CE for a few years now.

So 'new' to you possibly, for others not so.

New (less than 5 year old) fads in photography.

1/Using iPads to take snaps at concerts/museums etc (everyone looks cool holding up something the size of a dinner plate)

2/Posting every single thing you take to your feed so your friends can see 'real time' your images sharing your dull boring life with 200 other people with equally nothing interesting to do is narcissistic.

3/ Making boring cell phone shots into faux Polaroids and uploading (as per two) press a button, upload for instant art– it is to photography what instant dried soup is to food.

There are a whole host of fads, which will be gone in 20 years, self portraits and food photography aren't in that category.

How is the self portrait, one of the standard forms of human artistic expression since the first cave painter airbrushed* around his or her hand as part of the composition, suddenly an annoying new trend? If you dislike the term "selfie", that's another issue. I personally think the English language has worse problems than a harmless slang term for a snapshot self portrait. Stop forming a plural with an apostrophe and you can call it a "selfie" all you want.

I find unboxing videos useful when I am preparing to buy a complicated new bit of kit with lots of crucial small bits.

*Yes, airbrushed. They probably used powdered pigment blown through a straw onto a prepared surface.

How is the self portrait, one of the standard forms of human artistic expression since the first cave painter airbrushed* around his or her hand as part of the composition, suddenly an annoying new trend? If you dislike the term "selfie", that's another issue. I personally think the English language has worse problems than a harmless slang term for a snapshot self portrait. Stop forming a plural with an apostrophe and you can call it a "selfie" all you want.

I find unboxing videos useful when I am preparing to buy a complicated new bit of kit with lots of crucial small bits.

*Yes, airbrushed. They probably used powdered pigment blown through a straw onto a prepared surface.

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